A HONITON woman has appeared in court at Exeter charged with the theft of two packets of cigarettes from her former employers at The Paper Shop in New Street.

A HONITON woman has appeared in court at Exeter charged with the theft of two packets of cigarettes from her former employers at The Paper Shop in New Street.

Marie Susan Knott, 56, of Streamers Meadows, appeared at Central Devon Magistrates' Court last Thursday where she was convicted of the June 20 offence.

She was given a conditional discharge and ordered to pay �10 compensation and �60 court costs.